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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Existing Frameworks of Delivery of Major Volatiles and the Feasibility of Mars-Mass Planetary Embryos as the Major Volatile Contributors to Bulk Silicate Earth

   Pathak and Dasgupta · Astrobiology · 2025

   The paper reviews ideas for how volatiles reached Earth, then models carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur in a Mars-mass embryo's core, magma ocean and atmosphere to test whether it could supply Earth's volatiles.

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   1. Unchecked“Our results show that an oxidizing condition (log f O 2 ≥ IW−1 [Iron-Wüstite]) is critical in establishing the relative LEVE budget of the embryo’s MO, closer to that of present-day bulk silicate Earth.”
   2. UncheckedIn many model scenarios, especially from reduced bodies, a Mars-mass embryo's core holds as much life-essential volatiles as the present-day bulk silicate Earth, or more.“In contrast, the CI-chondrite-normalized LEVE budget of the embryos’s core, in many of the scenarios, especially from the reduced ( e.g., IW−2) bodies, overlaps or exceeds the present-day BSE estimate.”